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	Definition of Syria - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.
		Syria's political instability during the years after the 1954 coup, the parallelism of Syrian and Egyptian policies, and the appeal of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's leadership in the wake of the 1956 Suez crisis created support in Syria for union with Egypt.
		Syria consists mostly of arid plateau, although the northwest part of the country bordering the Mediterranean is fairly green.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Syria (4160 words)

	Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Syrian Arab Republic or Syria is a country in the Levant region of the Middle East.
		Syria sent 40,000 troops into the country to prevent them from being overrun, but soon became embroiled in the Lebanese Civil War, beginning the 30 year Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
		Syria's 1991 participation in the U.S.-led multinational coalition aligned against Saddam Hussein marked a dramatic watershed in Syria's relations both with other Arab states and with the West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syria (5035 words)

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		Syria received significant financial aid from Gulf Arab states as a result of its participation in Gulf war, with a sizable portion of these funds earmarked for military spending.
		Syria manages its debt by indefinite deferment--it is badly in arrears on payments to the World Bank and has suspended clearinghouse arrangements to draw down debt with its largest creditor, Russia.
		While Syria's involvement with the multinational coalition during the Gulf war and participation in the peace process have helped to improve Syria's relations with the West, concern remains over the continuing presence of terrorist groups in Syria and Syrian-controlled areas of Lebanon, Syria's human rights record, and Syrian involvement in narcotics activity in Lebanon.
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/backgroundnotes/syria.txt (5371 words)

	Syria - History
		Even though it was exploited politically, Greater Syria benefited immeasurably from the cultural diversity of the peoples who came to claim parts or all of it and who remained to contribute and participate in the remarkable spiritual and intellectual flowering that characterized Greater Syria's cultures in the ancient and medieval periods.
		The history of Greater Syria in the early medieval period is essentially the history of political Islam at one of its most glorious moments--the period of the Umayyad caliphate when the Islamic empire, with its capital at Damascus, stretched from the Oxus River to southern France.
		Among them are the colonization of Syria's frontiers, the suppression of tribal raiding, the opening of new lands to cultivation, and the beginnings of the settlement of the beduin tribes.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/syria/history.htm (8686 words)

	Syria (02/02)
		Syria is ruled by an authoritarian regime which exhibits the forms of a democratic system but in which President Asad wields almost absolute authority.
		However, Syria and Lebanon claimed that UNSCR 425 had not been fully implemented because Israel did not withdraw from an area of the Golan Heights called Sheba Farms, which had been occupied by Israel in 1967, and which Syria now claimed was part of Lebanon.
		Syria was an active belligerent in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, which resulted in Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights and the city of Quneitra.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/s/25610.htm (5556 words)

	Syria (10/05)
		Syria’s exchange rate is fixed, and the government maintains two official rates- one rate on which the budget and the value of imports, customs, and other official transactions are based, and a second set by the Central Bank on a daily basis that covers all other financial transactions.
		Syria has a population of approximately 18 million people, and official figures place the population growth rate at 2.58%, with 75% of the population under the age of 35 and more than 40% under the age of 15.
		Syria’s military remains one of the largest in the region, although the breakup of the Soviet Union--long the principal source of training, material, and credit for the Syrian forces--slowed Syria's ability to acquire modern military equipment.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3580.htm (6810 words)

	History of Syria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Syria was occupied successively by Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Byzantines, and, in part, Crusaders before finally coming under the control of the Ottoman Turks.
		French troops occupied Syria later that year after the League of Nations put Syria under French mandate.
		With the fall of France in 1940, Syria came under the control of the Vichy Government until the British and Free French occupied the country in July 1941.
	www.historyofnations.net /asia/syria.html (1351 words)

	Executive Board - First Regular Session - Project Syria 2418 (Exp.4) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During 1996, the WFP country office, together with the Government of Syria, embarked on the preparation of a country strategy to define the most appropriate use of WFP's development resources for Syria as its assistance is scaled down substantially through the year 2000.
		Syria is a low-income, food-deficit country and, as such, continues to qualify for WFP development assistance.
		As a result, WFP food aid in Syria is now exclusively targeted to small-scale subsistence farmers and to landless daily workers in the poorest areas of the country, the majority of whom are women.
	www.wfp.org /country_brief/projects/241804.html (7376 words)

	Arabic News Weekly Edition for Syria, 8/15/2005
		Syria signed a contact for oil and gas exploration with a Canadian and Kuwaiti companies in the west of Palmyra old city among the territories stretching between the Homs and Hama governorates, central Syria, SANA said today.
		Syria's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in cooperation with Areeba telecommunication establishment sponsored the marathon "Syria Heart of Humanity" which aims at supporting the Syrian prisoners in Israeli jails.
		Syria's President Bashar al-Assad explained on Sunday the current political developments which the region is witnessing stressing the validity of the Syrian vision of events and credibility of her analysis of the situation.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Weekly/Syria/20050815.html (1092 words)

	Syria
		orthern Syria, discovered in 1975, a great Semitic empire spread from the Red Sea north to Turkey and east to Mesopotamia from 2500 to 2400 B.C. The city of Ebla alone during that time had a population estimated at 260,000.
		Syria’s political instability during the years after the French departure, the parallelism of Syrian and Egyptian policies, and the appeal of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s leadership in the wake of the 1956 Suez crisis created support in Syria for union with Egypt.
		Syria is a middle-income developing country with a diversified economy based on agric
	www.srginc.org /syria.html (1684 words)

	Japan supports orphans in Aleppo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		DAMASCUS, 2 Mar 2005 (IRIN) - Orphans in the north, east and coastal governorates of Syria are to benefit from a Japanese grant recently given to a local NGO.
		Japan is at present funding large projects in Syria, such as renovation of drinking water pipelines and furnishing large hospitals.
		Childhood is one of the national priorities of Syria where huge efforts are being made at official and grassroots levels to build a promising future for children, al-Ezz stressed.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=45865 (836 words)

	Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo-Syria
		The Archdiocese is expended over 3 governorates in Syria, Aleppo, Idleb and Rakka, besides Alexandretta in Turkey.
		Though long distances separate these regions, the parishioners almost everywhere in Syria have settled in the cities.
		Therefore, the composition of our parishes has three different sources: those whose origin is Aleppo itself, and those who immigrated from Antioch and Al-Wadi and settled once for all in Aleppo.
	www.alepporthodox.org /02-en/03-archdiocese/introduction.htm (619 words)

	Arabic News Weekly Edition for Syria, 1/13/2003
		The Syrian Official news Agency SANA announced that the next legislative elections will be held in Syria on March 2nd according to a decree issued yesterday by President Bashar al-Assad.
		Syria's Vice President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, stressed yesterday that "reviving the Syrian-Russian relations" is the main issue to be discussed with President Vladimir Putin.
		A session of talks was held in Ankara yesterday between Syria's Foreign Minister, Farouk al-Shara and his Turkish counterpart, Yasar Yakis with the attendance of delegations of the two sides.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Weekly/Syria/20030113.html (609 words)

	Multinational Operation Launched to Eliminate Europe's Remaining PoliovirusReservoir
		Through a unique inter-regional collaboration between the EURO and the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) Regions of WHO, 2.3 million children under five years of age in adjoining areas of these four countries are targeted to receive additional polio vaccine.
		An intensive campaign is being carried out door-to-door in two rounds between 4 and 12 October and 7 and15 November, covering eleven provinces in Turkey, four provinces in Islamic Republic of Iran, nine governorates in Iraq and the border governorates of Syria.
		Since January 1998, 13 cases of poliomyelitis have been confirmed in four provinces in southeastern Turkey.
	www.who.int /inf-pr-1998/en/pr98-69.html (549 words)

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